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ElBaradei not confirmed as Egypt PM
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| Last Edited | Penguin Jul 06, 2013 03:39pm |
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| News Date | Saturday, July 6, 2013 09:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | A presidential spokesman has said that talks are continuing over the appointment of a new interim prime minister for Egypt, following earlier reports that opposition leader Mohamed ElBaradei had been chosen.
Authorities said there were several options for the position and acknowledged that there had been strong opposition to the possible appointment of ElBaradei.
Earlier on Saturday, the Tamarod (rebellion) movement, which engineered mass protests culminating in the overthrow of president Mohamed Morsi on Wednesday, had made the announcement of ElBaradei's appointment after talks with Adly Mansour, Egypt's new interim leader.
When initial news of the choice was leaked it was greeted with cheers outside Cairo's Ittihadiya presidential palace, where opponents of Morsi, the country's first freely elected president, frantically waved Egyptian flags and honked car horns.
Al Jazeera's Sherine Tadros, reporting from Cairo, said that the view from the Egyptian people was that ElBaradei would bring about further divisions in the country.
Mohamad Elmasry, a professor at the American University of Cairo, told Al Jazeera it was possible the announcement had been made by state media to "gauge reaction" to the appointment. |
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